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Accounting records dating back more than 7,000 years have been found in Mesopotamia, [11] and documents from ancient Mesopotamia show lists of expenditures, and goods received and traded. [1] The development of accounting, along with that of money and numbers, may be related to the taxation and trading activities of temples :
The aim of the Accounting History journal identifies how the accounting field communicates in today's context. The journal offer's articles with competing points-of-view about the past history of accounting. [6] Recognize the factors that are time-sensitive and can impact the effect the accounting [clarification needed]
Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. [1] [2] Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. [3]
Good morning. The business world needs more CPAs.And to build a pipeline, professors at Purdue University are on a mission to shatter the stereotypical image of an accountant.
The field of management accounting has not yet developed sufficient tools to measure the value of such assets as human capital and intellectual capital. Organizations now need systems that continually assess and re-assess the people who work there, including their skills, talents and behavioral attributes, while paying attention to how human ...
Accounting research is carried out both by academic researchers and by practicing accountants.Academic accounting research addresses all areas of the accounting profession, and examines issues using the scientific method; it uses evidence from a wide variety of sources, including financial information, experiments, computer simulations, interviews, surveys, historical records, and ethnography.
The area shows growing interest, given a number of books [8] and a degree of institutionalization as a potential subfield shown by the first issue of the academic journal Valuation Studies [9] in 2013, [10] while existing journals in cultural sociology and economic sociology, like Poetics and Socio-Economic Review, show a strong treatment of ...
Context-Based Sustainability (CBS) – also known as Context-Based Accounting – is an open-source, triple/multi-bottom-line, integrated accounting methodology for measuring, managing, assessing and reporting the performance of organizations (and other human social systems) relative to upper and lower limits in, and demands for, vital resources (i.e., capitals) in the world.